Economics 213 - Economic Development

Spring
2014
01
4.00
Sarah Adelman
MW 08:35AM-09:50AM
Mount Holyoke College
86849
Clapp Laboratory 407
sadelman@mtholyoke.edu
'A study of micro-economic development topics related to how households in lower-income countries consume and produce food. Topics include the causes and consequences of hunger and malnutrition, the agricultural household model, household-level food production and demand, intra-household allocation and bargaining, human and social capital investments and their impacts on food production and consumption, land rights and land use, child labor, and risk, credit and insurance markets used by agricultural households.'
Prereq: Economics 103, 104, or 110.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.